Author Topic: Grandma throws 2 year old off walkway - to her death (Read 562 times)

Matthew · « **on:** November 30, 2010, 01:59:16 PM »

Cops: Grandma threw child to her death at Va. mall

By SARAH BRUMFIELD

The Associated Press
1:28 p.m. Tuesday, November 30, 2010

McLEAN, Va. — A Virginia grandmother threw her 2½-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from a walkway at a shopping mall after a family outing, police said Tuesday.

Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax was arrested and charged Tuesday with murder, said prosecutor Ian Rodway, the chief deputy Commonwealth's attorney.

The child, Angelyn Ogdoc, died in a hospital after plunging to the pavement Monday night. She fell from a walkway linking the mall's third floor to the parking garage's sixth floor at Tysons Corner Center in Fairfax, a Washington suburb in Virginia.

Investigators believe Dela Rosa threw the child over a railing but do not yet know why, Fairfax County police spokeswoman Tawny Wright said. Wright said the toddler and Dela Rosa were leaving the mall with family at the time.

Dela Rosa was being held without bond, and a preliminary hearing in the case was set for Jan. 4, Rodway said. A public defender will be assigned to the case.

One of Dela Rosa's neighbors, Russell Jackson, described them as "a happy family" and said Dela Rosa lived with her husband and a son, but that their daughter and granddaughter were frequently at the home.

Jackson, who lives in a row house directly next door to the family, said the grandparents would often take care of the young girl.

"She was a sweet, happy baby," he said, adding that Dela Rosa and her grandchild could often be seen in the window of the home, waiving to passers-by.

No one answered the door Tuesday at Angelyn's two-story home in Falls Church, about seven miles from the home of the grandparents.

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2010, 01:59:50 PM »

This world has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Got Chastisement?

Belloc · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2010, 02:02:44 PM »

for punishment, lets throw grandma off railing

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2010, 02:27:12 PM »

Maybe she was under influence of alzeimer or suffering from certain diseases of mind some old people have.
When people get very old, they become like children. Unfortunately for some it happens sooner.

And, the goal of punishment is to amend the offfender and prevent potential offenders from crimes. People are hard to amend in their old age. And if she is ill then no guilt, no amendment.
And people will learn not to put their grandchildren of railing?